bacchanal
buh kay nuhl
- n someone who engages in drinking bouts
- n a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
- n a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
- s used of riotously drunken merrymaking
a night of bacchanalian revelry
- It's a raging bacchanal of hand holding, milk drinking and explicit thespianism! Obviously, this is escapism for parents too.
- That stilted parade known as the presidential campaign had marched into a High Plains bacchanal of shiny hogs, leather chaps and skanky tattoos--and the people seemed to like it.
- The annual beach bacchanal we know today has its roots in ancient greek mythology, a college swim meet and the debauchery of Girls Gone Wild.